Christine

“You don't share a language, you think, and then you realise, grief is a language. We understand each other, people with troubled pasts.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“At the end of the day, we all remember for the same reason we try to forget: to survive in a world that neither understands nor values us.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Anyone who has experienced great grief wonders at some point which is more difficult, learning or unlearning. There was a time when Yui wouldn't have been able to say, but now she was sure it was the second.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“I still can't help but wonder, do our lives truly hold no meaning? Even if you try desperately to find it, to contrive some kind of meaning, is it true that what's not there isn't there? Does life leave only misery behind? Could the fact that we're alive—the fact that we're in this life where joy and terror and peace and danger mingle—couldn't that itself be the meaning of life?”
― Kwon Yeo-Sun, Lemon